Phonograph.



F. L. DYER & F. 1). LEWIS.

I PHONOGRAPH. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 19, 1909.

1,010,355. Patented Nov. 28, 1911.

FRANK L. DY'ER, or MoN'roLAm, AND ERA ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

NK 1). LEWIS, 0F EIJIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, TO THOMAS A. EDISON, INCORPORATED, OF

WEST ORANGE, NEW. JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

PHONOGRAPH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1911;

Application filed June 19, 1909. Serial No. 503,235.

[0 ad whom it m y concernfl Be it known that we, FRANK L. DYER, a

' citizen of the United States, and a resident of Montclair, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and FRANK D. Lnwrs, a resident of Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have made a certain new and useful Invention'in Phonographs, of which the following is a description.

Our invention relates to phonographs, and the objects thereof are to provide a novel and eifectii 'e mounting fora phonograph horn or sound conveyer used in connection with a phonograph or other talking machine, and to provide an improved cabinetfor a phonograph or talking, machine having ,the horn mounted as herein described entirely inclosed therein.

Other objects of our invention reside in the COil'lbllltltlOlIS of parts and constructions of details as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification in which corresponding parts are. denoted throughout by the same reference characters, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of our improved cabinet having a mounted therein. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of the lower part of the cabinet or supporting means therefor, the upper portion of the cabinet being shown partly in section on line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detail showing the method of mounting the horn in Fig. 2, the same being an end View of the horn with supporting means.

Referring to the drawings, the phonograph 1 is nip-resented conventionally as being provided with the mandrel 2 and a reproducer 3 mounted onthe traveling carriage i as is common. These parts are mounted on the upper side of the top 5 of thccabinet 6. llhe phonograph motor is inclosed within the casing 7, which may be secured to the lower side of top member 5, or any other suitable place in any convenient manner. The phonograph 1 may be covered by the removable cover 8.

The casing or cabinet 6 may be of any suitable design, and as we have shown it,

is mounted upon the columns 9 which rise phonograph and horn from the top of the casing 10, which may,

if desired, be provided with drawers 11 for holding the phonograph records. The front of cabinet 6 may, if desired, be provided with a grilleor fret work 12, by means of which the inclosed horn maybe concealed while atthe same time the sounds issuing therefrom are allowed freely to pass through the said grille or fret work.

-The sound conveyor 13 is connected to the neck of the reproducer 3 by a telescoping connection l lof well known character,

the sound conveyor-l3 preferably extending rearwardly from the reproducer 3, as shown at 15, thence downwardly by bend 16, and thence forwardly again in part 1 7,which extends in substantially ahorizontal direction through the. inclosing cabinet ti from back to front, this part constituting a sound amplifying horn of suitable shape and dimensions and terminating preferably in a bellshaped mouth 18 just behind the grille 12. I

The horn 17 and sound conveyer 13 formed integral with or connected thereto are mounted to rotate 'to a sufficient extent about a fixed axis at right angles to the path of travel of the traveling carriage of the phonograph, the telescoping connection 14. rising or falling with the. travel of the car.- riage in one or the other direction, as the forwardly directed mouth portion of thehorn turns about its pivot. Preferably, the axis about which the horn swings as dc, scribed is the axis of symmetry of the for wardly directed mouth portion 17 of the horn. This pivotal mounting may be provided in a number of ways. As shown in the drawings, the rod 15) is mounted with one end thereof supported at the rear' of I cabinet 6 b bracket 20. The end of the rod is rot ably supported by bracket 20' in any suitable manner, as by ball bearings 21. The rod 19 passes from bracket 20 into the forwardly directed p rtion of the horn and proceeds axially therethrough, being bent downwardly as shown at 22 immediately in front of the mouth 18 of the horn, the vertical portion 23, of the rod 19 so provided being rigidly supported by the bracket 24;. The horizontal portion of arm 19 passes through a ring or similar suitable bearing 25, which is supported axially within the horn 17 by arms 26.

Having now described our invention, what we claim and desire to protect by-Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In a device of the character described, in combination, a traveling carriage, a reproducer thereon, a sound conveyer connected .to the neck of the reproducer, said conveyer having a substantially horizontal mouth. portion, and pivotal means for supporting said conveyer to permit movement of the same about the axis of the horizontal portion, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character described, in combination, a traveling carriage, a reproducer thereon, a sound conveyer connected to the neck of the reproducer, said conveyer having a substantially horizontal mouth portion, and a substantially vertical portion, said conveyer being connected to the reproducer by a telescoping joint, said conveyer being pivotally mounted about the axis of the mouth portion thereof, substan tially as described.

3. In a device of the character described, in combinatioma traveling carriage, a reproducer thereon, a cabinet on which said parts are mounted, a sound conveyer ext-end ing from said reproducer into said cabinet and extending forwardly therein, and means for supporting said conveyer to permit movementthereof during the travel of said carriage about a stationary approximately horizontal axis, substantially as described.

i. In a device of thecharacter described, in combination, a traveling carriage, a reproducer thereon, a cabinet on which said parts are mounted, a sound conveyor extendmg from said reproducer into said cabinet and extending forwardly therein, and means for supporting said conveyor to permit movement thereof during the travel of said carriage about a stationary axis extending at right angles to the path of the traveling i carriage, said conveyer being joined to the .reproducer neck by a joint permitting movement axial of the said neck between the neck and the adjacent end of the conveyer, sub stantially as described.

5. In a device of the character described, in combination, a traveling carriage, a reproducer thereon, a cabinet on which said parts are mounted, a sound conveyer extending from said reproducer into said cabinet and extending forwardly therein, and a rod extending axially through the mouth portion of the conveyer, means for supporting said rod, and means for pivotally supporting said conveyor on said rod, substantially as described.

6. In a device of the character described, in combination, a traveling carriage, a reproducer thereon, a support on which said parts are mounted, a sound conveyer con nected to said reproducer and having a mouth portion extending forwardly therefrom and a rod extending axially through the mouth portion of the conveyer, means for supporting said rod, and means for pivotally supporting said conveyor on said rod, substantially as described.

7. In a device of the characterdescribed, in combination a controlling carriage, a reproducer thereon, a cabinet having a support on which said parts are mounted, a sound conveyer extending from said reproducer into said cabinet and extending forwardly therein, and means for supporting said conveyor to permit movement thereof during the travel of said carriage about an axis extending at right angles to the path of the traveling carriage, said conveyer being oined to the reproducer neck by a joint permitting movement between the neck and the adjacent end of the conveyor.

FRANK L. DYER. FRANK D. LEWIS. "W itnesses Dyna SMITH, J 01m M. CANFIELD. 

